Current Status Introducing Body:House Bill Number:3294 Primary Sponsor:Fair Committee Number:25 Type of Legislation:GB Subject:DUI, drivers license suspension Residing Body:House Current Committee:Judiciary Date Tabled:19940215 Computer Document Number:DKA/4088AL.93 Introduced Date:19930128 Last History Body:House Last History Date:19940215 Last History Type:Tabled in Committee Scope of Legislation:Statewide All Sponsors:Fair Simrill Snow Fulmer Gamble Stuart A. Young Robinson Marchbanks Cato Stone Meacham Wilkins D. Wilder Type of Legislation:General Bill
Bill Body Date Action Description CMN Leg Involved
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3294 House 19940215 Tabled in Committee 25
3294 House 19930128 Introduced, read first time, 25
referred to Committee
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TO AMEND SECTION 56-1-746, AS AMENDED, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO THE SUSPENSION OF THE DRIVER'S LICENSE OF PERSONS CONVICTED OF CERTAIN DRIVER'S LICENSE AND ALCOHOL-RELATED OFFENSES, SO AS TO PROVIDE THAT THE LICENSE OF A PERSON ACCEPTED INTO A PRETRIAL INTERVENTION PROGRAM ON BEING CHARGED WITH ONE OF THESE OFFENSES MUST BE SUSPENDED AS IF THE PERSON WAS CONVICTED AND TO REQUIRE THE CIRCUIT SOLICITOR TO REPORT THE PERSON'S ACCEPTANCE INTO THE PROGRAM TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS AND PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
SECTION 1. Section 56-1-746 of the 1976 Code is amended by adding:
"(E) If a person charged with an offense enumerated in subsection (A) of this section is accepted into a pretrial intervention program on the charge, his driver's license must be suspended as provided in this section in the same manner as if he was convicted of the offense. The circuit solicitor shall report to the department the acceptance into a pretrial intervention program of a person charged with one of the enumerated offenses."
SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.